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The class is limited to maximum of 15 students.
Nine two hours teacher-led in-person class meetings.
Nine one hour online meetings is totally real time (not asynchronous online video class) and highly interacts with our teachers.
One to two hours each week self-paced online learning through Google Classroom.
SPRING 2025 COURSE: FEB. 7, 2025 TO MAY 16, 2025
TOTAL 9 WEEKS, 27 HOURS, 2 DAYS A WEEK STUDENT-PROFESSIONAL FACULTY INTERACTION - ZERO TIME DIFFERENCE
Free online tutoring with TA (one hour per week)
Free culture class meeting (family members welcome)
Free TEXTBOOK: Let's Learn Mandarin Book 2 Lesson 01 ~ 03
MANDARIN, novice iI
MANDARIN, novice iI
This hybrid course is offering to maximum of 15 students each class with basic Mandarin language experience. After the nine weeks Novice I course, students will continue be introduced to Mandarin characters, word usage, sentence patterns and grammar.
Can understand commonly used expressions and catch the main point in a short conversation when it is conducted slowly and clearly.
Can understand short, simple texts on familiar matters of a concrete type which use high frequency every day or job-related language.
Students will not only develop their ability to speak, read, write within the Mandarin language, but they will have an opportunity to learn beyond the text, enriching their understanding of Chinese culture and customs.
CLASS MEETS: FRIDAYS 7:00~9:00 PM @ LYNBROOK HIGH SCHOOL, SAN JOSE, CA.
ONLINE CLASSES WILL BE CONDUCTED THROUGH THE ZOOM PLATFORM
In-classroom teacher:
In-classroom teacher:
Professor HSI-CHI LEE
Professor HSI-CHI LEE
Ph. D., Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Chinese as a Second Language / TCSL, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Master’s Degree, Applied Linguistics, Indiana University/IU, Bloomington, IN
Director, Mandarin Chinese Center, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan
Certificate of Proficiency for Teaching Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, ROC
25 years Mandarin & English teaching; 10 years Mandarin teacher training
On-line teacher:
On-line teacher:
JIA-MING ZHANG
JIA-MING ZHANG
Master's Degree of Institute of Chinese as a Second Language, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Bachelor of History, College of Liberal Arts, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Certificate of Qualification for Teaching Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, ROC
One Year of Mandarin Instructor, Mandarin Training Center, National Taiwan Normal University
CHS STARTALK Summer Institute for 89 hours of face-to-face instruction
NOVICE II Workbook
NOVICE II Workbook
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